Bulgaria has banned face-covering Islamic veils in public, joining a small number of European countries that have done so as debate rages across Europe about religious freedoms and Islamic terrorism.
Pakistan has urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally intervene to help defuse rising tensions with India over the divided and disputed region of Kashmir.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Netherlands' ambassador in Moscow over the Dutch-led international investigation which concluded that a Russian military missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine downed the MH17 civilian passenger jetliner in 2014.
Azerbaijani's parliament has passed a resolution on resuming relations with the European Parliament that have been suspended for more than a year.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of trying to protect a militant extremist group in Syria in its effort to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The United States military says it is building a $100 million temporary base for surveillance drones in central Niger to help the West African country fight militant groups and protect its borders.
A Kazakh court has sentenced a former prison guard to nine years in jail for the rape of a female inmate. Ruslan Khakimov was found guilty on September 30 of raping inmate Natalya Slekishina in 2015. (RFE/RL's Kazakh Service)
Pope begins three-day visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan.
British Ambassador to Ukraine Judith Gough has expressed concerns over a ruling by Russia's Supreme Court that upheld a ban on the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine's occupied territory of Crimea.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry has summoned Russia's ambassador in The Hague for a diplomatic rebuke after Moscow made remarks critical of the criminal investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Thousands attended a rally in Belgrade to protest the demolition of buildings for a controversial waterfront development project. The event on September 29 was organized by the citizens' group "Let's Not Drown Belgrade." (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
A photo exhibition in Moscow showing soldiers involved in the separatist conflict in Ukraine has been attacked by pro-Kremlin activists. (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
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